"His poems are filled with brilliant and unusual imagery of the Australian landscape. He shows splendid technical ability, a power of restraint and, above all, that overtone of mingled sadness and joy, completely unanalysable, which is pure poetry." Kenneth Slessor
"This entirely European combination of world-loss and ancestral harboring, of refuge, is perhaps the most important contribution Skrzynecki has yet made to our poetry." Thomas Shapcott
"It is a mark of Skrzynecki's genius that "Immigrant Chronicle" can fairly lay claim to being the best poetical treatment of the immigrant experience, in Australia, since the nineteenth century." Stephen Magee